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Here you will find the latest Single Mum Australia Centrelink Articles regarding the single mother pension (aka single parenting payment, parent payment single, single parent pension, etc.), Centrelink Newstart payment, Family Tax Benefits (FTB Part A & B), single parent funding, single parent grants, single parent supplements, Centrelink single parent allowances and any other Centrelink payments for single parents.

After four years of political manoeuvring, an amazing, heartfelt impassioned speech by single mother and independent senator Jacqui Lambie signalled the passage, finally, of the government's Omnibus Savings Bill... more...

You thought the 2014 FTB cuts were dead but they're back. Like the zombies of Hollywood, these are the big Abbott government family payment cuts that squarely target single mums. They were never implemented, but they just won't die more...

The Turnbull government has announced "a new approach aiming to revolutionise the welfare system." The new approach will target three 'at-risk' groups - young single parents, young carers and young students more...

Family Tax Benefits are a key battleground for the government as it searches for budget savings. Some cuts and changes have already been legislated. Others have been proposed since 2014. Now a new deal between treasurer more...

You have heard of Malcolm Turnbull's Omnibus Savings Bill that cuts family tax benefits - but you probably haven't heard about these ten other cutbacks to government spending that could hit your family's finances hard more...

The School Kids Bonus is $211 per child at primary school and $421 per child at high school, paid in January and July. The Schoolkids Bonus payment date is Thursday 2 July to Thursday 16 July 2015 more...

The government is facing a storm of criticism about its family support priorities. The Minister for Social Services, Scott Morrison, has denied that his new child care and family tax benefit policies discriminate against single parents or parents staying at home to care for kids more...

Since our story was published two days ago, Labors Families and Payments spokesperson Jenny Macklin has been hit with a flood of emails and phone calls from parents worried about losing Family Tax Benefit Part B more...

Single parent must-know Budget cuts you were probably not aware of - if you are not afraid of the Budget, you will be after you read this Budget breakdown of all the 2014 Budget cuts and Budget changes from Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey
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Your guide to the 2014 Federal Budget - spoiler alert - you may be $10K worse off next year...FTB cuts, Bulk-Billing lost, Parenting Payment Single and Family Tax Benefits frozen.....single parents told - Now it is our turn to contribute
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10 Stories of Single Mothers is a collaborative production of several organisations, and was filmed to highlight the plight of single mothers and their children moved from Parenting Payment Single to Newstart Allowance when their youngest child turns eight years old
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The SingleMum.com.au Poll results are in: Tony Abbott believes that Aussie parents blow their Schoolkids Bons. We polled over 1,000 parents to find out what they really are spending their Schoolkids Bonus on - and the results may shock you more...

Newstart Income Support Bonus also under threat - Tony Abbotts government will pay the School Kids Bonus next month because the legislation to kill off the popular cash payment has been successfully held up by a coalition of Labor and Greens senators more...

Families have a right to be concerned about the new government and what it may mean for their benefits and payments. The Abbott government has a very different focus in mind for family payments more...

For more than 30 years, the Liberal Party has promoted hostility towards the welfare state and welfare recipients. This animus reflects two distinct ideological perspectives: a neo-liberal concern to cut government, reduce social expenditure and enhance individual autonomy, and a social conservatism that aims to punish the bad behaviour of welfare-reliant individuals who allegedly refuse to conform to mainstream values such as self-reliance and the work ethic more...

Single parents who have been campaigning against being moved to Newstart have been bitterly disappointed by the lack of response from government. A small improvement in the Newstart income taper is among a handful of small changes that will benefit a minority of the almost one million single parents in Australia more...

With the Federal Budget almost here, many of us will be waiting to see if the Government changes its unfair approach towards some of the most vulnerable people in our community, including the 84,000 single parents recently moved to Newstart Allowance more...

Single Parents stood up all around Australia this week to unite in protest against being forced off the Parent Payment Single (PPS) and onto the lesser Newstart Allowance. The Australian Government's recent controversial move to force all remaining "grandfathered" (pre-2006) Parent Payment Single recipients onto Newstart (when their youngest child turns eight years old) has been met with single parent outcries all over the country more...

What good news could there possibly be for families who have lost hundreds of dollars per fortnight for the sake of Wayne Swan's now abandoned promise of a federal budget surplus in 2013? Yes, single parents are turning to prostitution or despairing about how they can support their children more...

The January 2013 policy changes pushing single parents onto Newstart Allowance has been justified as a way to motivate parents to get work. This justification amounts to empty spin when the details are unpicked. Economists usually attribute motivation for people to do something through being rewarded. In this case the public is asked to believe that increasing the financial penalties of working will motivate people to work more more...

From 1 January 2013, all single parents whose youngest child is turning eight or more will lose their eligibility for Parenting Payment Single. Single parents are making a big $728 million contribution to the federal government’s budget surplus plans. That equals a loss of income of $60 to $140 per fortnight for thousands of single mums more...

More cash for kids - but single mums could lose $60pw. Wayne Swan’s 2012 federal budget, delivered yesterday, pumps money into millions of middle income families but takes money from the poorest single parent families more...

A historic change has been made to family payments and it is now delivering thousands of dollars to millions of teenagers. Plus other big increases and changes to eligibility for scholarships and ancillary benefits have now come into effect. more...

kids

are the most important thing in a single mum's life. Kids are the focus and always have been. But along with the children, there are other matters that can confuse a single mum's life.

Centrelink

plays a big part of a single mother's life, mainly because this is where a large percentage of single mums get their finances from. Centrelink are the source from where the

single mother pension

, or as it is otherwise known, the single parent payment comes from. The single mother pension is a subsistence amount, but just the same, it is money to live on, and so it is important, no matter if it is called single parent payment, single mother pension or whatever Centrelink welfare classes it at the time

Often, single mums come out of a

divorce

or defacto relationship only to find that their troubles have just begun, and find that their first step leads them towards Family Law - it's time to engage a lawyer.There are more than just Centrelink finance problems to worry about, as mentioned before, but also

child custody

issues. Child custody is something that hits right at the heart of

single mums

. If a single mother's ex husband or ex partner has been a domestic violence perpetrator, the mum may be greatly worried about child custody. They worry that their kids won't be safe with their spouse, who has already proven to be abusive because they caused

domestic violence

, which resulted in a divorce or separation.

Even so,

Family Court

will often still order a form of child custody named

Shared Parenting

. Shared Parenting is a form of child custody division of time or parental responsibility between the parents. Mother's often look for a good divorce lawyer to try to avoid share parenting with an abusive ex-spouse after divorce, however in many cases Shared Parenting is still the outcome after the divorce, no matter how good the divorce lawyers have been. They will often settle for visitation at a contact centre or access centre where fathers or mothers are supervised during child custody access.

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